Annette Michelson, as she might have appeared in one of those films she wrote so much about. A lost Eisenstein. Not the whole film, but a reel.
Went to bed last night with Michelson's essay "Film and the Radical Aspiration" (1966), which she read at the Special Events program of the Fourth New York Film Festival at Lincoln Centre, September, 1966.
What Michelson wrote on the early days of film reminded me of the early days of the internet. But it's what she wrote about wax museums as "proto-cinema" (where the audience moved, not its actors) that made this essay bedtime reading.
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